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- From: atems@hal.physics.wayne.edu (Dale Atems)
- Subject: Questions about SGI floppy drive
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.184356.18370@cs.wayne.edu>
- Originator: atems@hal
- Sender: usenet@cs.wayne.edu (Usenet News)
- Organization: Dept. of Physics, Wayne State University
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:43:56 GMT
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- I am considering buying SGI's internal floppy drive for an Indigo.
- Does anyone have any experience with this drive? I intend to use it
- mainly to archive data generated by software running under IRIX. Tape
- is inconvenient for this purpose since 1/4-inch drives don't support
- updating an existing archive. 8-character filenames are too
- restrictive, so I would want to use floppies formatted as efs volumes,
- not DOS volumes. Among my concerns are:
-
- 1). How do you format floppies under IRIX?
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- 2). Do you have to be superuser and use the mount(1M) command to mount
- floppies, or will msdosd do this for you even if they are efs volumes?
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- 3). Although this is an internal drive, is max SCSI cable length an
- issue here? This Indigo already has two external devices attached, a
- CD-ROM drive and a 1/4-inch tape drive.
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- Any helpful information will be appreciated. E-mail replies welcome.
-
- Dale Atems
- E-mail: atems@hal.physics.wayne.edu
-